Anubis

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Mythology A jackal-headed Egyptian god, the son of Osiris. He conducted the dead to judgment.

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proper n. A taxonomic genus within the family Cerambycidae — many longhorn beetles.

proper n. In the mythology of ancient Egypt, the god of the dead and tombs, commonly depicted with the head of a jackal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits to judgment, represented by a human figure with the head of a jackal, dog or fox.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An Egyptian deity, represented with the head of a dog or jackal, and identified by the later Greeks and Romans with their Hermes or Mercury.

n. In zoöl.: A generic name of the fennec of Bruce, Anubis zerda, a kind of fox, the Canis zerda of Gmelin, the Fennecus zoarensis of some authors, supposed to be the animal taken for a jackal in certain Egyptian hiero-glyphs. The specific name of a very large kind of baboon, the Cynocephalus anubis of western Africa.

Etymologies

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Examples

Tawny, wandering dogs with jackal ears, fallen indeed from their old position, and forgetting apparently that they counted Anubis, the dog-headed _Anubis latrator_, among their ancestors, passed in and out among the groups, but without taking the least interest in what was going on.

Rumor has it that Blue Sky Studios, the Academy Award winning computer animation subsidiary of 20th Century Fox responsible for Ice Age, Robots and Horton hears a Who! might have optioned a small press book called The Anubis Tapestry for one of their next projects.